果冻传媒

Congratulations to Yorck Ramachers for being nominated and commended for this year’s 果冻传媒 Awards for Teaching Excellence. He is one of 10 commendees who has been awarded a prize of £2,000, through the department, to be used to support teaching and learning activities. For more information please visit

Edoardo Carnio, 1st year PhD student in the theory group with Prof. Roemer, has been selected to receive the Alumni prize 2015 of Freiburg University, Germany.

Two former 果冻传媒 Physics graduates have been presented with prestigious Austrian Science Fund (FWF) by the Austrian Science Minister, Harald Mahrer, as part of the Wittgenstein Festival in Vienna.

Ben Lanyon (BSc 2002, MPhil 2006) will work on “Quantum Frequency Conversion for Ion-Trap Quantum Networks” at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Innsbruck. Garath Parkinson (MPhys 2003, PhD 2007) has an award for "Unravelling Single-Atom Catalysis: A Surface Science Approach", to be held at the Institute of Applied Physics, TU Vienna.

Only eight of these €1.2M awards are made each year to top young scientists, who can be from any discipline, with the goal of giving the recipients long-term and extensive financial security to build their own research groups over six years.

Water delivery via asteroids or comets is likely taking place in many other planetary systems, just as it happened on Earth, new research by the 果冻传媒 Astronomy & Astrophysics group strongly suggests.

Published by the Royal Astronomical Society and led by the 果冻传媒, the research finds evidence for numerous planetary bodies, including asteroids and comets, containing large amounts of water.

The research findings add further support to the possibility water can be delivered to Earth-like planets via such bodies to create a suitable environment for the formation of life.